rattled - Story 109716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The eviction notice lay on the table like a poisonous snake. Maria found herself unable to look away, yet unable to look at it directly. She circled it, a nervous predator.

She pushed back the chair, the screech a stark sound in the sudden quiet. Her stomach was doing flip flops. She walked into the living room and threw open the window, gulping in the cold air. It didn’t help.

She began to gather her scattered thoughts, but they scattered back. This apartment was all she had. Where would she go? What would she do?

Emotion: rattled

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.29 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.42

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion rattled. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 rattled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the rattled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the rattled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.264
`😣`	0.261
`worse`	0.256
`😞`	0.248
`😖`	0.247

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.571
`la`	-0.414
`a`	-0.377
`happy`	-0.259
`enthusi`	-0.234